Brandon Cruz 武蘭土音 ⚔️ 🏛🌿

People are concerned about their choice of apparel, but hardly the diction of their character.

[Brandon Cruz 武蘭土音 ⚔️ 🏛🌿 @SiredbyAres]

There are times that I laugh at contemporary ideology and there are other times when I want to pierce the breastplate of stupidity.

[Ghost of Hellas @ghostofhellas]

1905, Armando Menocal, Ganímedes

[Hellenist ☀️🏺⚡️ @RealHellenist]

Hermes and Athena

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Prophetic

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

A bronze statuette of Aphrodite untying one of her sandals. 1st century AD. Louvre, Paris.

Ἢ γὰρ Κύπρις πέφυκε τῷ σκότῳ φίλη,
τὸ φῶς δ᾽ ἀνάγκην προστίθησι σωφρονεῖν.
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The Cyprian goddess is by nature fond of the dark,
daylight inevitably leads to moderation.
Euripides, Meleager, Fragment 9

[𝕳𝖚𝖟𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖚𝖟 𝕶𝖊𝖉𝖎 🦇 @BayanHedonist]

Death on a Pale Horse by Édouard Ravel de Malval

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

One of the greatest sculptors of all time was born 269 years ago today, on November 1, 1757.

His name was Antonio Canova, and this is Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, a marble sculpture he carved between 1787 and 1793. It depicts the most tender moment of an ancient love story: in the myth, Psyche was warned never to open a certain jar, but she couldn’t resist, and fell into a sleep so deep it was like death. Cupid flies down to find her, and here he holds her in his arms, about to wake her with a kiss, while she reaches up to draw him closer.

Part of the magic lies in how Canova worked with light: even in his first clay sketches he studied how light would fall across his figures, and he poured all his skill into the final stage of the work, which he called the “last hand.” He would smooth and polish the stone for weeks, often working by candlelight to see every curve, and rub a thin mixture of wax into the skin to take away the cold shine of the marble and make it glow softly, like real flesh.

He was born in the small village of Possagno and raised by a grandfather who was a stonemason, which is how he came to be carving marble before he was even ten. He spent his whole life trying to make stone breathe, and it’s no surprise that Lord Byron once wrote that Canova could create what nature could, but would not...

[Diego Velázquez @velazquez_bot]

Mercury and Argus #artbots #velázquez

[Héraklès Citharède @HeraklesCithare]

Призраки Эллады ou les Fantômes de la Grèce, par le peintre russe Vassili Polenov, 1905.

[Lysander 🇬🇷 @Since_1944]

“The greatest political problems, Schiller says, can be solved only by aesthetic means.”

[𖤓 @unconquered_sol]

Day and Night
— Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914)

[LenguasClásicas IEDA @clasicasIEDA]

Apolo y Dioniso, los eternos opuestos.

[Hellenist ☀️🏺⚡️ @RealHellenist]

Artemis and Athena

[art.JPG @artjpgph]

İyi geceler

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Miles Johnston - Agony (2017-2018)

[the pantomathwar @pantomathwar]

A Female Narcissus, Franz Russ

[🕊️ServingArt🎨 @ServingArt]

Ulysses and the Sirens, (circa 1909) — Herbert James Draper.